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La Trobe University
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Departmental Research Publications

Publications for the year 2004

J. Armstrong, M. Feramez and H. A. Suraweera, "Optimum noise thresholds in decision directed impulse noise mitigation for OFDM", accepted for International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne , UK , July 2004.

H. A. Suraweera, K. Panta, M. Feramez and J. Armstrong, "OFDM peak-to-average power reduction scheme with spectral masking", accepted for International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne , UK , July 2004.

C. Chai and J. Armstrong, "Simulation study of WFQ packet scheduling mechanism for different coding schemes in GPRS networks", accepted for International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne , UK , July 2004.

J. Armstrong and H. A. Suraweera, "Impulse noise mitigation for OFDM using decision directed noise estimation", accepted for IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2004), Sydney , Australia , Aug./Sep 2004.

J. Shentu and J. Armstrong: Blind frequency offset estimation for PCC-OFDM systems, IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E87-B, No. 1, Jan 2004, pp.29-35.

Kusha Panta and J. Armstrong, "Effects of Clipping on the Error Performance of OFDM in Frequency Selective Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, vol. 3, March 2004, pp. 668-671.

H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, "M-QAM OFDM and PCC-OFDM performance in the presence of phase noise," in Proc. 5th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2004), Newcastle, NSW, Australia, Feb. 2004, pp. 98-103.

K. Panta, H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, "Performance of PCC-OFDM in multipath fading channels ", in Proc. Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2004), Newcastle , NSW, Australia , Feb. 2004, pp. 118-121.

C. Chai and J. Armstrong, "Simulation study of packet scheduling mechanisms by providing different classes of services in GPRS network", presented in 5th Australian Communication Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2004), Newcastle , NSW, Australia , Feb. 2004. (not reviewed)

Cahill, L.W. Switching and power splitting properties of MMI-based Mach-Zehnder structures', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, V 5355, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies VIII, 2004, p 134-140.

Cahill, L. W. 'The modelling of integrated optical power splitters and switches based on generalised Mach-Zehnder devices', Optical and Quantum Electronics, v 36, n 1-3, January/February, 2004, p 165-173.

Cahill, L.W. 'Optical waveguides for on-chip optical interconnects', Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, V 5357, Optoelectronic Integration on Silicon, 2004, p 11-15.

Gibson B. C., Love J. D. and Cahill L. W. Thin-film Palladium Coatings on Single-mode Fibre Tapers. CD Proc. 29th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) / Australian Optical Society (AOS) Conference, Canberra , Australia , July 5-8, 2004.

A. M. Dart, C. D. Gatzka, J. D. Cameron, B. A. Kingwell, Y. L. Liang, K. L. Berry, C. M. Ried and G. L. Jennings, Large Artery Stiffness Is Not Related to Plasma Cholesterol in Older Subjects with Hypertension', Arterioscleriosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, vol. 27, May 2004, pp. 962-968.

K. L. Berry, J. D. Cameron, A. M. Dart, E. M Dewar, C. D. Gatzka, G. L. Jennings, Y. L. Liang, C. M. Ried and B. A. Kingwell, Large-Artery Stiffness Contributes to the Greater Prevalence of Systolic Hypertension in Elderly Women', Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 52, March 2004, pp. 368-373.

G. Deng, Iterative learning algorithms for linear Gaussian observation models', IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 52, Special Issue on Machine Learning, 2004, pp. 2286-2297.

G. Deng, EM algorithms for robust signal filtering and prediction', European Signal Processing Conference, Vienna , Austria , Sept. 2004.

G. Deng, D.B.H. Tay, S. Marusic, The Design of a Pair of Orthogonal Scaling Filters, invited paper in Special Session on Filter Banks and Wavelets, to appear in International Symposium on Communication and Information Technologies (ISCIT) 2004, Sapporo , Japan .

D. M. Matthews, M. L. Parkinson, P. L. Dyson and J. C. Devlin. Optimising Estimates of Mesospheric Neutral Wind using the TIGER SuperDARN Radar, Adv. Space Res., July 2004 (draft paper submission).

M. L. Parkinson, M. Pinnock, J. A. Wild, M. Lester, T. K. Yeoman, S. E. Milan, H. Ye, J. C. Devlin, H. U. Frey and T. Kikuchi. Interhemispheric asymmetries in the occurrence of magnetically conjugate sub-auroral polarisation streams', Ann. Geophysicae (draft paper submission), April 2004.

M. L. Parkinson, G. Chisham, M. Pinnock, P. L. Dyson and J. C. Devlin. Magnetic local time, substorm and particle precipitation-related variations in the behaviour of SuperDARN Doppler spectral widths', Ann. Geophysicae. (in press).

M. L. Parkinson, M. Pinnock, J. A. Wild, M. Lester, T. K. Yeoman, S. E. Milan, H. Ye, J. C. Devlin, H. U. Frey and T. Kikuchi, Magnetically conjugate Auroral Westward Flow Channels (AWFCs) observed by SuperDARN SuperDARN 2004 Workshop, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2004.

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, FPGA Implementation of a Phased Array DBF using Polyphase Filters', The IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT04) , Brisbane, Australia December 2004.

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, FPGA Implementation of Digital Upconversion using Distributed Arithmetic FIR Filters', The IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT04) , Brisbane, Australia, December 2004.

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, Optimization of Serial Distributed Arithmetic Algorithm for FPGA Implementation of Digital Upconversion', The 6th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA6) , Ballarat , Australia , December 2004.

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, FPGA Implementation of a Phased Array DBF using a Latch Method', The IEEE International Networking and Communications Conference (INCC04), Lahore, Pakistan June 2004 .

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, Analog Conversion for FPGA Implementation of TIGER Transmitter using a 14 bit DAC', The IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications (DELTA04), Perth, Australia Jan 2004.

T. Salim, J. Devlin, J. Whittington, Quantization Effects in Digital Up Conversion and Digital Beam Forming for TIGER Radar System', Proceedings of the Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science (WARS04) Tasmania , Australia , Feb 2004.

S. Guo , J. Zhang, D. M. Elton and A. M. Bond, Fourier Transform Large-Amplitude Alternating Current Cyclic Voltammetry of Surface-Bound Azurin', Analytical Chemistry, vol. 76(1), January 2004, pp. 166-177.

P. Junor Recent Developments in Signal Processing for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers Signal Processing Society Victorian Chapter, May 2004. (Invited oral presentation).

P. J. Peyton, G. J. B. Robinson, D. Terry and P. A. Junor, A new method for measurement of gas exchange during anaesthesia using an extractable marker gas', Physiological Measurement, Vol. 25, February 2004.

C. Akalanli, I. Millar and P.Junor, Ventilator Flow Monitoring Under Hyperbaric Conditions', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 34.

E. Mackie, M. Barnes, R. Pierce and P. Junor, A Compliance Device for Position Monitoring In Patients With Positional Obstructive Sleep Apnoea', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 36.

K.K. Deo, P.J. Peyton, G. J. B. Robinson and P. Junor, Measuring Cardiac output During Anaesthesia', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 35.

P. Junor and P. Janney, Complex Wavelet Transform for MRI', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 86.

P. Ramani, C. Stuart- Andrews, G. Robinson, P. Peyton and P. Junor, Physiologically Realistic simulation of Multiple Lung Gas Exchange During Anaesthesia By Simultaneous Gas Infusion and Extraction', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 159.

R. Hendry, C. Morley and P.Junor, Instrumentation For Resuscitation Training', The Annual Conference of Engineering and the Physical Sciences in Medicine, Geelong, Australia, November 2004, p. 37.

R. L. G Kirsner, A. V. Samuel, D. B. H. Tay, I. T. Meredith, and J. D. Cameron Coronary Artery Wall Thickness Detection Using Intravascular Ultrasound', Australian Physical & Engineering Sciences and Medicine, vol. 27, December 2004, pp. 299-300.

A. V. Samuel, J. D. Cameron, D. B. H. Tay and R. L. G Kirsner, A Vector Imaging System For Coronary Intravascular Ultrasound Analysis', in Proc. of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Naples, Italy, August. 2004.

Sarah A. Hope, David B. Tay, Ian T. Meredith, James D. Cameron, Use of Arterial Transfer Functions for the Derivation of Aortic Waveform Characterictics in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetic Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 3, Mar. 2004, Pg. 746-751.

D.B.H. Tay, Balanced-Uncertainty Optimized Wavelet Filters with Prescribed Vanishing Moments, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, Pg. 105-121.

D.B.H. Tay and M. Palaniswami, A Novel Approach to the Design of the Class of Triplet Halfband Filter Banks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-II, Vol. 51, No. 7, July 2004, Pg. 378-383.

D.B.H. Tay and M. Palaniswami, Design of Approximate Hilbert Transform Pair of Wavelets with Exact Symmetry, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2004, Montreal , Canada .

D.B.H. Tay, S. Marusic, M. Palaniswami, G. Deng, Mathematical Properties of the Two-Parameter Family of 9/7 Biorthogonal Filters, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems 2004, Vancouver , Canada .

D.B.H. Tay, S. Marusic, G. Deng, M. Palaniswami, Wavelet Theoretic Properties of the Family of 6/10 Biorthogonal Filters, invited paper in Special Session on Filter Banks and Wavelets, to appear in International Symposium on Communication and Information Technologies (ISCIT) 2004, Sapporo , Japan .

Dieing, T. and Usher, B., Influence of N2 background pressure on the incorporation of arsenic during molecular beam epitaxy growth of GaAs', Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. Part B. Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures., vol. 22, No. 3, pp.1544-1548.

Whittington J., Devlin J., Nguyen, M., "Digital Stereo Enhancement to the TIGER Radar System", Proceedings of the Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science (WARS04) Tasmania , Australia , Feb 2004.